Author: Avi Selk
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The myth of the lonely gamer playing in solitude is dead
Jeff Kaplan met his wife in his 20s, as many do. He was an aspiring writer living in Los Angeles while moonlighting as a Halfling rogue in the multiplayer fantasy video game Everquest. She was a Dark Elf warrior at the time, and, to prove himself worthy of joining her guild, Kaplan had to duel…
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Watch a bear pick a fight with a tiger to try to save her cub
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The heat is scorching in Tadoba National Park. Water is scarce, and the tiger, over all animals, is supposed to reign supreme. Only a few dozen tigers roam this 30,000-acre reserve in central India, according…
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She says she was groped on a Delta flight – then told to sit down and ‘let it roll off your back’
A woman says she awoke on an overnight Delta flight to a man squeezing her crotch, and then leaning on top of her as she struggled to get out of her aisle seat. Allison Dvaladze ran and asked flight attendants for help, she said, but was told that such assaults are quite common, and was…
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NRA lashes out at boycott movement as United, Delta and other corporations cut ties
If the #BoycottNRA movement were a land invasion, it would have blitzed across the lightly defended countryside of corporate America in the past three days, pressuring United Airlines, Best Western, MetLife and at least a dozen other companies — one after another — to do away with discounts and perks for National Rifle Association members.…
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United and Delta cut ties to NRA as boycott movement spreads to global corporations
Delta and United – two of the largest airlines in the world – have joined a growing list of companies cutting ties with the National Rifle Association amid a growing boycott movement inspired by the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with a legally purchased AR-15 rifle. Without context, the airlines’ twin…
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WATCH: A Carnival cruise in the South Pacific descended into violent anarchy
A Carnival cruise devolved into near-anarchy during its 10 days in the South Pacific, with some passengers locking themselves inside their cabins, others kicked off the ship and security guards brawling with vacationers in a bare-knuckles melee. Carnival said it would investigate what happened after a video surfaced, showing the guards punching, kicking and threatening…
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Paul Ryan celebrated the tax cut with a tweet about a secretary saving $1.50 a week
Never mind all the Democrats who call the GOP’s tax bill a deficit-busting giveaway to the rich; House Speaker Paul D. Ryan has been enthusiastically promoting it as a middle-class tax windfall. He’s been coaching other Republican lawmakers to sell the $1.5 trillion tax cut to voters, and telling people on Twitter to check their…
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Will Ferrell’s George W. Bush: I want to ‘remind you guys that I was really bad’
President Trump’s time in office has been good for George W. Bush. The latter’s ratings were about as dismal as Trump’s current ones when he left the White House in 2009, but they have skyrocketed lately as people compare Bush with his historically unpopular Republican successor. Enter Will Ferrell, who has spent much of the 21st century brutally parodying Bush as a slack-jawed, gibberish-spewing,…
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Hackers are making US ATMs spit out cash like slot machines, report warns
Hackers able to make ATMs spit cash like winning slot machines are now operating inside the United States, marking the arrival of “jackpotting” attacks after widespread heists in Europe and Asia, according to security news website Krebs on Security. Thieves have used skimming devices on ATM machines to steal debit card information, but “jackpotting” augurs…
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Man shoots his mom in the head during tantrum over video games, police say
A 28-year-old man playing a video game in his bedroom threw a fit, broke his headset, then picked up a gun and killed his mother, according to police in Ceres, California. Matthew Nicholson stayed with his parents in a powder blue house with a basketball hoop over the garage door. It was a loving and…